Finishing - Digital

Muller Martini’s SigmaLine now fits well with production in the much more complex commercial book segments.

The eleventh Hunkeler Innovationdays was the largest and most diverse yet, with almost 6,000 visitors traveling from over 50 nations.

Digital printer vendors have something of a natural preference for running their presses in "print only" mode with nothing extra attached to potentially gum up the works. But the very nature of continuous inkjet (no plates, very short back-to-back runs) argues strongly for integrating finishing so that a complete product can come out the end with little labor involved.

At the Xeikon Café, MBO will produce 4-up, 16-page pharmaceutical leaflets on its Digital Pharmaceutical Leaflet Solution.

Kodak’s Prosper IOS Offline Coating Solution produces optimally-coated inkjet paper for use with Kodak Prosper Presses.

Designers and printers are pushing the proverbial envelope with laser diecutting, realizing breathtaking results in the process.

In the “old days,” runs were in the millions of copies and machines could run continuously for days.

The work-in-progress workflow in commercial printing has evolved over decades and is now fairly well defined. On the digital side, things are still in a bit of a flux. High-volume digital printing (mainly inkjet) has expanded so rapidly that the finishing component has had to sprint to keep up.

Hunkeler Innovationdays 2015, being held February 23-26, 2015, in Lucerne, Switzerland, will feature leading edge technologies in digital print and finishing, as well as practical solutions that integrate with every print production workflow.

Another successful Wide-Format Technology Summit was hosted by Fujifilm North America, Graphic Systems Division, this time at the company's all-new Chicago Technology Center in Hanover Park, IL. Nearly 50 people were in attendance to experience inkjet innovations and wide-format print applications, and also receive a tour of the new 23,000-square-foot facility.